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The science which treats of the structure and functions of the stomach; a treatise of the stomach.

A softening of the coats of the stomach; -- usually a post- morten change.

A kind of divination, by means of words seemingly uttered from the stomach.

The fungoid growths sometimes found in the stomach; such as Torula, etc.

One whose voice appears to proceed from the stomach; a ventriloquist. [Obs.]

Pertaining to the stomach and diaphragm; as, the gastrophrenic ligament.

An instrument for viewing or examining the interior of the stomach.

Examination of the abdomen or stomach, as with the gastroscope.

Pertaining to the stomach and spleen; as, the gastrosplenic ligament.

The operation of making a permanent opening into the stomach, for the introduction of food.

A cutting into, or opening of, the abdomen or the stomach.

See Stomatopoda.

eeding (as of poultry or infants) by means of a tube passed through the mouth down to the stomach.

The muscular stomach, or gizzard, of birds.

That with which one is girded; a girdle. Instead of a stomacher, a girding of sackcloth. Is. iii. 24.

The second, or true, muscular stomach of birds, in which the food is crushed and ground, after being softened in the glandular stomach (crop), or lower part of the esophagus; the gigerium.

A sumptuary law of Venice required that gondolas should be painted black, and they are customarily so painted now.

The throat; the gullet; the canal by which food passes to the stomach. Wherewith he gripped her gorge with so great pain. Spenser. Now, how abhorred! . . . my gorge rises at it. Shak.

A friend or comrade; a companion; a familiar and customary acquaintance. [Obs.] My noble gossips, ye have been too prodigal. Shak.

enomena, particularly in the digestive organs. It may also attack internal organs, as the stomach, the intestines, etc. Dunglison.